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One of 23 National Register listings published here for Bracken County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bold House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 98 Main St., Foster, 41043
- When was it listed? March 2017
- Category. building
- Census division. Foster
- National Register reference number. 100000734 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bold House in 2007, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bold House: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black River Mining Limekiln | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium | Plant | ||
| Pendleton County Underground | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foster, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Foster | $20,000 | A portion of the AA Highway near Foster was washed out. Western Route 8 also had high water and Ruf Road was washed out. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Foster | $20,000 | Holts creek road was impassible south of the AA Highway due to high water over the road caused by heavy rainfall. A house along the road was also flooded. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foster | $5,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foster | $5,000 | Numerous trees were downed in the Foster area. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foster | $5,000 | Several reports of downed trees were received in the Foster Area. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foster | $5,000 | A barn was destroyed. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Foster | $3,000 | A few trees were knocked down along with the large hail. |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foster | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foster | $1,000 | A couple of trees were downed on Route 8 due to thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2012 | Flood | Foster | $1,000 | High water due to heavy rainfall was reported on Holts Creek Road. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Foster | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bradford School House | 4.1 miles | 2003 |
 | Rock Spring Warehouse | 6.8 miles | 1987 |
 | Mordecai Chalfant House | 7.4 miles | 1987 |
 | Walcott Covered Bridge | 7.6 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000734 in Record Group 79. |
| Bracken County | All 23 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.